rachels.haven's Journal

[Baymule]

People are Disney oriented with talking animated make believe animals with human behaviors. That’s all they know. It’s only natural that they transfer their own thought and behavior patterns onto wild animals. People are woefully ignorant with an extra dose of stupidity.

Im sorry you are having such heat, your area is not equipped to handle it. At least you have air conditioning. It helps.

 

[rachels.haven]

So for the last two nights the does have broken out of their mini barn and instead of just loafing around their pen as usual they've gone over to the machine shed and broken Bailey out too and hung out with her. Apparently they are friends.

And yes, at night we have been separating them by about 30 feet. Bailey does not like constant goat crowding around dinner and benefits from a little nightly rest and personal space. She cares about them, but not that much. Although she's suddenly started liking them more in the last few days...

 

[rachels.haven]

Sigh. Yesterday I made myself sick all day by putting on lotion that used to be okay so I could smell like a girl in the morning after the shower. Heat waves with much humidity make you feel gross after about an hour after becoming clean. Apparently that is preferable to having an allergic reaction. I'll take it! So I was sick all day, took another shower, followed by benadryl when the reaction started cascading and becoming enough fun I was worried it would become a hospital trip. End of day. Aw well. DH had to do chores with me stumbling drunkenly behind after waking up from a drugged sleep (I don't handle any drugs well, unfortunately). I need to streamline chores better for him, I think. The little things need adjusting.

I euthanized my last chicken this morning. I sold the others for soup. This one was very sick and I'd nursed it back a time or two. It was pretty vile this morning. All the ducks and chickens I'd processed wouldn't have prepared me for this.

So day before yesterday an electric poultry net for around the coop to keep the bears away and poultry in came in the mail. Today we go get the 6 female ducks.

I'm waiting on a special delivery this morning.

 

[Mini Horses]

Ok...keeping the bears away was enough for me! Bears?? Geesh, your rotten neighbor problem sounds better to handle.

We do have black bear around here, mostly they habitat the Great Dismal Swamp preserve. That's about 30 miles out but many highways and some rivers between. Never seen one live in 20 yrs here....I am blessed. Couple seen on tailgates at reporting stations.

Apparently a very good year for turkey. They are everywhere!!! Huge numbers.

 

[rachels.haven]

Yeah, the black bears here break into coops and kill the birds and eat all the chickens. If you don't have an electric fence (about $500/100ft) Fish and Wildlife blames you. You have animals, therefore you are feeding bears, shame on you, how dare you tempt our bears with your chicken coops/goat sheds. The bears keep getting to coops on my road, so I figured I should just do it. As soon as the fence is fixed the goat pen is also getting hot wires to help my Bailey dog out.

 

[Bruce]

The coyotes went ahead and went after a smaller human on the cape yesterday.

That is just too scary. I bet people aren't allowed to carry protection against the coyotes. I think at minimum I'd be carrying a baseball bat.

 

[rachels.haven]

I feel the same way too. I recommend the trifecta of personal protection: the bat, the bear spray, and the air horn. Just don't let the horn's button get pressed in your purse (or pocket)

 

[Baymule]

No lotion for you! That’s bad stuff. I can’t use deodorant, taking zinc helps with the stink. LOL Also spray arm pits with hydrogen peroxide. It kills the bacteria that feeds on the sweat.

 

[rachels.haven]

(Probably tmi, but...)It took me years to find (and them to invent it) but Old Spice makes a deodorant called "Wolfthorn" for men that smells like Hawaiian punch that does not make me sneeze. I used to just use stuff sparing and sneeze, but suddenly a bunch of the men in my life that were related to me were using it and not making me sneeze (dad, 3 brothers, inlaws...). There may have been a Dan bathing in someone's deodorant incident involved too, and if that didn't set me off I figured using it would be a good viable alternative. It may still bother you, as sensitivity levels vary, so I'm not really recommending it, (I know better)but that's why I'm not back showering twice a day or just sneezing through the day. Vanilla scents with no musk mixed in are occasionally also okay.

The lotion USED to be okay. I wonder if it went off...meh.

 

[farmerjan]

@Baymule have you ever tried Tom's of Maine unscented deodorant? I find I have no problems with the scented ones, but they make an unscented one also. NO aluminum, which is my pet peeve in deodorants. Just thought I would ask.